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Religion, Community and Development : Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India.

By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the community and was more inclined to use the category of class rather than the identity of religion, the Sachar Committee differentiated citizens on the basis of their religious identity. Its conclusions reinforced the necessity of approaching issues of development through the optic of religious community.Read more...

Front Cover; Half Title; Religion and Citizenship; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Religion, Community and Development; 2. Political Communalisation of Religions and the Crisis of Secularism; 3. The Sachar Committee Report and Multiculturalism in India: Questions of Group Equality and the Public Sphere; 4. Hindutva's Discourse on Development; 5. Seva, Sangathanas and Gurus: Service and The Making of the Hindu Nation; 6. Development as Liberation: An Indian Christian Perspective. 7. Indian Christians: Trajectories of Development8. Sikhs Today: Development, Disparity and Differences; 9. The Contemporary Muslim Situation in India: A Long-Term View; 10. Between Identity and Equity: An Agenda for Affirmative Action for Muslims; 11. Struggle for the Margin or from the Margin; 12. Literacy, Education and Gender Gap among Socio-Religious Communities; 13. Cultural Rights of Minorities During Constitution-Making: A Re-reading; 14. The Goan Muslim: Presence Through Invisibility; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Abstract:

By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the community and was more inclined to use the category of class rather than the identity of religion, the Sachar Committee differentiated citizens on the basis of their religious identity. Its conclusions reinforced the necessity of approaching issues of development through the optic of religious community.